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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Plain text table to csv problems Post 303036778 by ericaustin on Thursday 11th of July 2019 03:40:41 AM
Old 07-11-2019
Try using
Code:
tr

for straight-forward substitutions like this is much simpler:

Code:
$ cat ifile.txt | tr -s '[:blank:]' ',' > ofile.txt

or

sed method

Code:
sed 's/ \+/,/g' ifile.txt > ofile.csv
cat ofile.csv

1,4,22.0,3.3,2.3
2,2,34.1,5.4,2.3
3,2,33.0,34.0,2.3
4,12,3.0,43.0,4.4

 

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rec2csv

REC2CSV(1)							   User Commands							REC2CSV(1)

NAME

       rec2csv - rec to csv converter

SYNOPSIS

       rec2csv [OPTIONS]... [REC_FILE]

DESCRIPTION

       Convert rec data into csv data.

       -t, --type=TYPE
	      record set to convert to csv; if this parameter is omitted then the default record set is used

       -S, --sort=FIELD
	      sort the output by the specified field.

       --help print a help message and exit.

       --version
	      show version and exit.

AUTHOR

       Written by Jose E. Marchesi.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to: bug-recutils@gnu.org
       GNU recutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/>
       General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2010, 2011, 2012 Jose E. Marchesi.  License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
       This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

       The  full  documentation  for  rec2csv  is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and rec2csv programs are properly installed at your
       site, the command

	      info rec2csv

       should give you access to the complete manual.

rec2csv 1.4.93							   January 2012 							REC2CSV(1)
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